Infrastructure Systems for Nuclear Energy (eBook)

Thomas T. C. Hsu, Chiun-lin Wu, Jui-Liang Lin (Herausgeber)

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2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-53627-8 (ISBN)

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Developing sufficient energy resources to replace coal, oil and gas is a globally critical necessity. Alternatives to fossil fuels such as wind, solar, or geothermal energies are desirable, but the usable quantities are limited and each has inherent deterrents. The only virtually unlimited energy source is nuclear energy, where safety of infrastructure systems is the paramount concern. 

Infrastructure Systems for Nuclear Energy addresses the analysis and design of infrastructures associated with nuclear energy. It provides an overview of the current and future nuclear power industry and the infrastructure systems from the perspectives of regulators, operators, practicing engineers and research academics. This book also provides details on investigations of containment structures, nuclear waste storage facilities and the applications of commercial/academic computer software. 

Specific environments that challenge the behavior of nuclear power plants infrastructure systems such as earthquake, blast, high temperature, irradiation effects, soil-structure interaction effect, etc., are also discussed. 

Key features:

• Includes contributions from global experts representing academia and industry
• Provides an overview of the nuclear power industry and nuclear infrastructure systems
• Presents the state-of-the-art as well as the future direction for nuclear civil infrastructure systems

Infrastructure Systems for Nuclear Energy is a comprehensive, up-to-date reference for researchers and practitioners working in this field and for graduate studies in civil and mechanical engineering.

Autor

Thomas Hsu, University of Houston is Moores Professor of Civil Engineering in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Houston. Professor Hsu has been Principal and Co-Principal Investigator on funded projects for over 30 years, and has received project funding amounting to over $3.5 million. He established the University of Houston's Structural Research Laboratory, and his research work has formed the basis for the shear and torsion design provisions in the American concrete Institute Building Code. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, and has authored or edited 4 books on reinforced concrete Jui-Liang Lin, National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), Taiwan, is an associate researcher with NCREE, Taiwan Chiun-lin Wu, National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), Taiwan, is an associate researcher with NCREE, Taiwan

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Acronyms

Chapters

10 CFR

Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations

19

3D

Three Dimension

16

A

ABWR

Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (light-water cooled)

2

ACI

American Concrete Institute

18, 19, 28

AEC

Atomic Energy Council, Taiwan

7, 29, 30

AFNR

Advanced Fast Neutron spectrum Reactor (sodium cooled)

2

AGR

Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (carbon dioxide cooled)

2

AIJ

Architectural Institute of Japan

15

ALWR

Advanced Light-Water Reactor

2

AMP

Aging Managing Programs

2

ANS

American Nuclear Society

28

AOS

Add-On-Shield

30

ASCE

American Society of Civil Engineers

5

ASME

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

7, 18, 19, 26, 28

ASP

Aging Surveillance Programs

2

B

BARC, India

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in India

24

BDBE

Beyond Design-Basis Earthquake

5

Breeders-FBRs

See FBR

2

BWR

Boiling Water Reactor

1, 2, 10, 16, 17, 28

BWRVIP

Boiling Water Reactor Vessel and Internals Project

7

C

C

Celsius

19

CAMUS

French Seismic Research Program

8

CANDU

CANada Deuterium Uranium (reactor) (heavy water moderated)

2

CCF

Common-Cause Failure

2

CDF

Core Damage Frequency

2

CEA

French Atomic Agency; Also, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

8

CFR

Code of Federal Regulations

1, 18, 28, 31

CO2

Carbon Dioxide

2

CONMOD

CONcrete containment MODeling and management

28

CPR

Chinese (design) Pressurized (light-water cooled) Reactor

2

CRWMS M&O

Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Systems, Management and Operating contractor

31

D

DBA

Design-Basis Accident

17

DBE

Design-Basis Earthquake

5, 30

DBGM

Design-Basis Ground Motions

31

DID

Defense-In-Depth

2

DM

Direct Method

22

DNBM

Department of Nuclear Backend Management

29

DOD

Department of Defense

17

DOE

Department of Energy

1, 9, 17, 31

E

E/B

External Building

10

EACD

Earthquake Analysis of Concrete Dams, a computer program developed at the University of California, Berkeley

23

EBS

Engineered Barrier System

31

ECCS

Emergency Core Cooling Systems

1, 2

EPR

European (evolutionary) Pressurized (light-water cooled) Reactor, a third-generation PWR

1, 2, 22

EPRI

Electric Power Research Institute

7, 21, 28

EPU

Extended Power Up-rate

2

ESBWR

Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (light-water cooled)

2

ESI

Effective Seismic Input

23

ETH Zurich

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

24

EUR

European Utility Requirements

22

EW

East–West

16

F

F

Fahrenheit

19

FBR

Fast (neutron spectrum) Breeder Reactor

2

FE

Finite Element

22

FEM

Finite Element Method

16

FEP

Features, Events, and Processes

29

FSAR

Final Safety Analysis Report

30

FTS

Free Thermal Strain

26

G

GALL

Generic Aging Lessons Learned

28

GDC

General Design Criteria, or General Design Criterion

1, 18, 19

GE

General Electric Company

2

GEH

GE-Hitachi nuclear energy co.

2

GEL

Green Energy and Environment Research Laboratories

29

GGE

Greenhouse Gas Emission

2

GWh

GigaWatt-hour (109 W-hour)

2

H

HCLPF

High-Confidence-Low-Probability of Failure

3, 5

HDB

High-Damping rubber Bearing

5

HE

High-Explosive

17

HF

High-Frequency

19

HLW

High-Level Waste

31

I

I/C

Inner Concrete

10

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

1, 2, 28

IED

Improvised Explosive Device

17

ILRT

Integrated Leakage Rate Test

1

INER

Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Taiwan

29, 30

IPP

Independent Power Producers

6

iPWR

integrated PWR

9

ISFSI

Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation

30

ISG

Interim Staff Guidance used by the Spent Fuel Project Office of US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

19, 22

ITRI

Industrial Technology Research Institute

29

ITS

Important To Safety

31

ITWI

Important To Waste Isolation

31

J

JEAG

Japan Electric Association Guidelines

5, 15

JMA

Japan Meteorological Agency

16

JNES

Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization

5

JRC

Joint Research Centre, European Commission

8

K

KEPCO

Kansai Electric Power COmpany

10

KEPRI

Korea Electric Power Research Institute

15

KK

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP

16

KM

Knowledge Management

2

KSSC

Korean Society of Steel Construction

15

kWh

kiloWatt-hour (103 W-hour)

2

L

LCS

Large-Core Solution

22

LDB

Low-Damping rubber Bearing

5

LITS

Load-Induced Thermal Strain

26

LLNL	Lawrence Livermore National...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.12.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Schlagworte: Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen • Civil Engineering & Construction • Earthquake • Erdbebensicherheit • Festkörpermechanik • Festkörpermechanik • Maschinenbau • mechanical engineering • nuclear power systems, nuclear infrastructure, nuclear power design, nuclear plant design, nuclear energy infrastructure, nuclear design code, nuclear concrete, nuclear civil infrastructure, nuclear plant design • solid mechanics • Structures • Tragwerke
• ISBN-10: 1-118-53627-4 / 1118536274
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-53627-8 / 9781118536278